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London County Council 1903

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]

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SANITARY

Metropolitan borough.N umber of sanitary inspectors.Census, 1901.
Inhabited houses.Total tenements.Tenements under 5 rooms.Overcrowded tenements.Population.Population in tenements under 5 rooms.Population in overcrowded tenements.Average per sanitary inspector.
Males.Females.In- habited houses.Tenements.Tenements under 5 rooms.Overcrowded tenements.Population.Population in tenements under 5 rooms.Population in overcrowded tenements.
Battersea11223,46238,98724,0893,032168,90788,99918,3811,8052,9991,85323312,9936,8461,414
Bermondsey915,81729,07322,0644,307130,76086,15625,7261,7573,2302,45247914,5299,5732,858
Bethnalgreen1014,00528,20923,7326,384129,68098,85338,4101,4002,8212,37363812,9689,8853,841
Camberwell13136,67156,98531,9264,073259,339117,64825,0122,6194,0702,82029118,5248,4031,787
Chelsea318,64117,46712,0821,91473,84237,72310,6592,1604,3673,02047818,4609,4312,665
Deptford815,82324,61513,9561,667110,39851,8619,9991,9783,0771,74420813,8006,4831,250
* For the purposes of this report the term "overcrowded tenements" is applied to those tenements of less than 5 rooms which at the date of the 1901 census were occupied to the extent of more than two persons per room.